My question is how can I ask if you want to play the game then start my other code that tells whether the letter is a vowel or not. Basically start doing one thing and when its done start the other. The problem isn't that the code is bad because my program runs and asks if I want to play the game, its just that isn't running then going to my other code. Also if anyone could give tips on how to put all of this in a little window or GUI.


import cs1.Keyboard;
public class anotherTest {

public static void main(String[] args)
{
String[] Yes = {"Yes", "yes"};
String[] No = {"No", "no"};

String start;
boolean found = false;
System.out.println ("Would you like to play a game? Yes/No");
start = Keyboard.readString();

for (int index = 0; index < Yes.length; index++)
if (start.equals(Yes[index]))
found = true;
else (start.equals(No[index]))
found = false
if (found)
System.out.println (start + ", Then shall we begin.");
else
System.out.println (start + ", Your loss.");
}

{

String[] begin = {"shall we begin."};
String[] letters = {"A", "a", "E", "e", "I", "i", "O", "o", "U", "u"};

for (int index = 0; index < letters.length; index++)
if (after.equals(begin[index]))

String after;
boolean found1 = false;
System.out.println ("Please enter a letter from A-Z: ");
after = Keyboard.readString();

for (int index = 0; index < letters.length; index++)
if (after.equals(letters[index]))
found1 = true;
if (found)
System.out.println (letters + " is a vowel.");
else
System.out.println (letters + " is a constant.");

}
}

This post has been edited by Mastergeek666: 16 Aug, 2007 - 02:55 PM

There appears to be a few syntax issues with your code. I noticed that a few of your "for loops" don't have opening curly braces and one of your statements found = false is missing the semicolon. Your printlns also need to be changed from letters to something like letters[index]. That way it will display each character at a time like I am sure you meant for it to do.

But as far as your first question it really depends what you want it to do. Normally when you ask for input from the user it will cause the program to pause execution until they enter a value, then it will process that value and call other parts of the program to execute.

Other times you require the program to continue in an endless loop until the user does something to break the loop or change how the loop behaves (this is how some games work).

I think you will need to clarify further what you mean by "..going to my other code". What is that other code? A function? A separate file?

As for making GUI interfaces, you can go two different routes. You can use AWT which is for the more simple components without all the flashiness or you can go with Swing which gives you those pretty buttons and stuff.

I recommend swing because everything looks nice when you are done. Below is a nice site to showing you the start of swing. You can find tons of more articles on the net by typing "java swing tutorial" into Google.

Java GUI tutorial - Swing basics

Hope you find it useful. If you get stuck, feel free to come back here and we can work out any other errors you get.

You can use toupper to keep the size of the array down.

I'd say:

-Use swing for your GUI (see my tutorial in the Java Tutorials section)
-Always put opening curly braces in your "if", "for", "while", ... blocks, even if the block is only a single line. This is a good habit to take.

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thx for the help what I'm trying to get it to do is to ask if you want to play the game and then if you type yes then it will ask you to enter a letter from a-z.